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Arvanites in Greece originate from Albanian settlers [19] [20] who moved south from areas in what is today southern Albania during the Middle Ages. [21] [22] These Albanian movements into Greece are recorded for the first time in the late 13th and early 14th century. [23] The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be manifold.
Arvanitika (/ ˌ ɑːr v ə ˈ n ɪ t ɪ k ə /; [4] Arvanitika: αρbε̰ρίσ̈τ, romanized: arbërisht; Greek: αρβανίτικα, romanized: arvanítika), also known as Arvanitic, is the variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanites, a population group in Greece.
When Epirus joined Greece in 1913, following the Balkan Wars, Muslim Chams lost the privileged status they enjoyed during Ottoman rule and were subject to discrimination from time to time. During World War II, large parts of the Muslim Chams collaborated with the Axis occupation forces, committing atrocities against the local population. [7]
In Greece they are known as Arvanites, a name that was applied to both Greeks and Albanians that immigrated from Albanian areas such as Northern Epirus during the Ottoman Empire. [3] Some Albanian-speakers of Western Thrace and Macedonia use the common Albanian self-appellation, Shqiptar when speaking their own language and refer to Albanians ...
Laskarina Pinotsi, commonly known as Bouboulina (Greek: Λασκαρίνα (Μπουμπουλίνα) Πινότση; [note 1] 1771 – 22 May 1825), was a Greek naval commander, a woman of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and considered perhaps the first woman to attain the rank of admiral.
At the same time, the Albanian speaking population in Thesprotia, who is very rarely characterized as Christian Chams, [21] is often referred by Greeks as Arvanites (Αρβανίτες), [18] which primarily refers to the Albanophone Greeks of southern Greece but is commonly used as for all Albanian-speaking Greek citizens.
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[30] [3] [10] [4] [31] The term Arbëreshë is still used as an endonym and exonym for Albanians that migrated to Italy during the Middle Ages, the Arbëreshë. [4] [32] It is also used as an endonym by the Arvanites in Greece. Within the Balkans, Aromanians still use a similar term, Arbinesh, in the Aromanian language for contemporary ...